0
0

Biden simply lied outright about Georgia voter law. It expands voting hours, does not contract them


 invite response                
2021 Apr 9, 10:09pm   391 views  4 comments

by Patrick   ➕follow (55)   💰tip   ignore  

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wapo-fact-checkers-slam-biden-for-georgia-election-law-claims-four-pinocchios/ar-BB1f7V0E

The Washington Post fact-checking outfit awarded President Joe Biden “Four Pinocchios” — its worst rating — for his claim that a new Georgia election-security law “ends voting hours early.”

Biden, whose White House called the legislation “Jim Crow in the 21st Century,” has repeatedly insinuated that the law limits voting opportunities. “Among the outrageous parts of this new state law, it ends voting hours early so working people can’t cast their vote after their shift is over,” he said in a statement on Friday.

During his first presidential press conference on Thursday, Biden said what he was “worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is,” calling it “sick” and saying that “you’re going to end voting at five o’clock when working people are just getting off work.”

But the law makes no change to Georgia’s Election Day voting hours, which run from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. “[E]xperts say the net effect was to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians, not limit them,” the Post reported. MIT election expert Charles Stewart III, who studied the law’s language for the paper, found that “it indicated an expansion of hours, especially in rural counties.”

As for early voting, the law specifically mentions that voting sites are required to open “beginning at 9:00 a.m.and ending at 5:00 p.m.” The specification, however, does not fit Biden’s characterization. As the Post noted, “[m]any listeners might assume he was talking about voting on Election Day, not early voting.”

A Georgia election official told the paper that the change was due to the fact that some rural election officials only work part-time, with the new law now forcing them to be open for at least eight hours on weekdays. That designation is only the minimum, however, as the law also allows for counties to operate voting booths anywhere between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The law also added an additional Saturday of mandatory early voting, as well as two optional Sundays.

“One could understand a flub in a news conference. But then this same claim popped up in an official presidential statement. Not a single expert we consulted who has studied the law understood why Biden made this claim, as this was the section of law that expanded early voting for many Georgians,” the Post stated. “Somehow Biden managed to turn that expansion into a restriction aimed at working people, calling it ‘among the outrageous parts’ of the law.”

The Post’s fact-checking “about” page notes that “Four Pinocchios” are reserved for claims that are “Whoppers.”

Comments 1 - 4 of 4        Search these comments

1   Karloff   2021 Apr 12, 7:15am  

What's newsworthy is that legacy media actually called it out, rather than covered for him.
2   Shaman   2021 Apr 12, 7:41am  

Yah the MSM propaganda machine can’t even prop up the whoppers he tells us on the regular.
3   Misc   2021 Apr 12, 8:49am  

If he'd simply turn the tele-prompter around so we could read it, it would save some confusion.
4   joshuatrio   2021 Apr 12, 8:59am  

I believe GA killed the tax breaks they were giving Delta and Coca Cola when they spoke out against the voting law.

Please register to comment:

api   best comments   contact   latest images   memes   one year ago   random   suggestions